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CHIMO Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-01-08 07:32 PM
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Will vote on Bill C-10 lead to an election?
OTTAWA — Liberals are vowing to amend the government's film tax credit legislation at the risk of triggering a federal election, insisting they will not let bureaucrats decide what Canadians can watch.

“If doesn't want to make an amendment, I will certainly propose an amendment. That's for sure,” Liberal Senator Francis Fox said.

Liberal MP and party heritage critic Denis Coderre echoed that view. “Do we want to have a society that will bring censorship?” he asked.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080501.wfilm02/BNStory/National/home

Election off Dion's spring agenda

OTTAWA–Canadians probably need not worry about a spring election, since Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion is reportedly urging MPs to spend the summer talking up policy proposals he intends to roll out in the weeks ahead.

Dion is said to have told his MPs at yesterday's caucus meeting that with the economy deteriorating and Conservatives' fortunes waning in the polls, the summer will present an opportunity for Liberals to put their own vision on the table.

This comes a day after Dion, talking to reporters in Quebec, said that now didn't seem to be the time to bring down Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government.

Dion insisted to reporters yesterday he hasn't declared anything yet on whether Liberals would provoke a spring election. But MPs who are eager to go to the polls interpreted Dion's talk to caucus yesterday as the strongest sign yet that they're not going to precipitate Parliament's collapse until at least the fall.

http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/420223

I doubt that we will be going for an election just now. Seems Quebec politicians think that they can make an issue out of the bill but it doesn't seem to be the issue.

I look to job losses and an issue that catches people enough to get them out to the polls.

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